Sandra Okita, Chuck Kinzer, and John Black - How Smart Can We Get?

These
are heady times in the world of education technology. Tools such as
iPads, Kinect and Wii increasingly provide opportunities for "embodied
cognition" -- the acquisition of knowledge through touch, movement,
gesture, sight, hearing and other activities involving the body as well
as the intellect. Interactive software generates data that can
illuminate which teaching strategies work best for students in a
particular classroom, school or district. Even low-tech approaches, such
as debate via chat function or manipulation of objects on screen, seem
to intensify focus.

It's easy to imagine a future world of
super-smart people, using technology to solve all kinds of daunting
challenges. But the new digital age is actually prompting questioning of
traditional measures of intelligence.

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